August Art Walk Mid Summer Strolling

Spend the evening exploring multiple venues in West Seattle, each hosting unique local art and music. Our participating artists, businesses, and restaurants are excited to welcome the community to stop by and join in celebrating our vibrant art scene. Get out there and enjoy art walk, have a glass of wine, enjoy extended happy hours and Art Walk only dining and experience local art direct from the source!

Summer (July/August/September) 2017 Walking Map

MORE ABOUT ART WALK:

This free art event encourages you to visit venues across greater West Seattle, both in The Junction and beyond. Many venues will also be inviting their featured artist(s) to meet the public and answer questions. The following businesses, organizations, and artists will be participating:

Next to Nature: Poetry by Paul Lannucilli 7pm

The prints I’ll be showing at Click investigate how we perceive and interpret space. I created compositions of interweaving lanes that are accented with an arrangement of lines. I endeavor to push how the viewer sees this illusion of dimension. Their eyes would navigate the intertwined lanes, following the arrangement of lines into the depth of the print, but also find the flat areas of color to contrast that dimensionality as their eyes are drawn back to the surface.

Kane Bowen is a Seattle artist, musician, and stylist. His visual artwork is a byproduct of self reflection, the observation of reality, and the exploration of the subconscious mind. Attention to detail and meticulousness are the backbone of his creations, whether using acrylics, watercolors, or pencils. He finds inspiration in his perception of dreams and nightmares, the immense and mysterious nature of the universe, and the elements that form our existence. By day, Kane expresses himself creatively as the Style Director at Essensuals London on Capitol Hill.

Cupcake Royale

Matters of Inheritance illuminates the serpentine process of constantly making and mending ourselves from legacies of violence that constructs Black womanhood as the antithesis of human. Through ornate paintings and fabric assemblages, Brianna McCarthy examines the internal atrocities caused by centuries of colonial mythology brutally imposed on our bodies. McCarthy confronts the ways Black women are taught to be dim, to be small, and to be soft while carrying the trauma of generations shattered by a world that does not want us alive.

Come visit the West Seattle office on Thursday, August 10, 2017, from 5-8PM for our first West Seattle Art Walk exhibit. We are excited to feature the works of West Seattle resident artist, Carolyn Autenrieth. Refreshments will be provided.

Artist Statement:

TIDAL NARRATIVES
The ordinary often holds mystery and beauty.

I have always appreciated Georgia O’Keeffe’s thoughts: “No one really takes the time to see…” she writes noting that we see only what we think we see, often never slowing down to invest the time it takes to really understand the visual world.